Rfi France. Several hundred residents of a working-class town near Paris took to the streets on Saturday in protest at two alleged Islamophobic attacks on young women wearing face-covering veils. Police have opened inquiries but not accepted that the assaults were hate crimes, according to lawyers. Up to 1,000 people […]
Torture by masters who claim the moral high ground, declarations they’ve won their war despite being in retreat, and insistence on a dignified exit after negotiation On 20th November 2001, in the Afghan embassy in Islamabad, the Taliban stamped into my passport their very last visa, number 001518, valid only […]
Ghada Karmi ALJAZEERA.COM Palestinians must dissolve the PA and demand the same rights as Israeli citizens, writes Ghada Karmi [Getty] Once upon a time, Palestine was the Arab world’s unifying […]
Ynetnews: May was Jewish History Month in the Canadian province of Ontario, proclaimed by an act of the provincial government one year ago. The month is dedicated to celebrating the […]
1. Barmakid Family (600s-900s) The Barmakids were a family of Buddhist administrators from the city of Balkh, in what is now Afghanistan. When the Umayyad Caliphate conquered the area in […]
Source: The Local A German economist has worked out how a cheap deal can make people ignore their personal convictions – and says his study debunks the idea that market forces can iron out unethical practices. More:
This is an old article, just to remind the readers what is happening ‘behind the scenes’. This secret army hardly gets into the News. By MARK MAZZETTI and EMILY B. HAGER Published: May 14, 2011 Correction Appended ABU DHABI, United Arab Emirates — Late one night last November, a plane […]
By William Maclean and Sami Aboudi DUBAI (Reuters) – Qatar appeared on Monday to be preparing its population for new leadership that could see the emir and prime minister step down, a step analysts say would not herald big changes in energy, investment or foreign policies. The Gulf Arab state […]
BY ISAAC CHOTINER NEW REPUBLIC 24th April 2013 (This article is from April, however the question why Musharraf returned is as acute as ever). If Pervez Musharraf exists at all […]
Daily Times: Mr Jinnah is the foremost symbol of Pakistan, even if Pakistan has not treated him with the respect he deserved. Balochistan is the sovereign and legal territory of the federation of Pakistan In 2000, the Taliban blew up the Buddha statues. When there was outcry all over the […]
A Pan-African non-governmental not-for profit women’s rights network, Women in Law and Development in Africa (WiLDAF) has called on the government to ensure the registration of Muslim marriages, while has embarked on a nine month project to create awareness about the need for Islamic marriages in the country to be […]
June 24, 2013 – 13:31 Reuters Swissinfo BEIRUT (Reuters) – Syria’s foreign minister said on Monday that a decision by Western and Arab countries to arm the rebels posed a danger to peace talks and would prolong the two-year conflict. Walid al-Moualem told a news conference in Damascus that the […]
Russia Today: The CIA and US special operational troops and have been secretly training Syrian rebels at bases in Jordan and Turkey since November 2012. Up to 100 from all over Syria have gone through courses in the last month alone, according to US media reports. At the two-week courses […]
myghanaonline: Posted Jun 24, 2013 at 8:55am | By charles Amponsah, gbcghana.com The 32nd Annual Conference of the Greater Accra Regional branch of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Women, Association has ended with a call on Muslims to invest in the education of their children especially the girl-child to enable […]
Daily Times: VIEW : Standing up for the Ahmadis — Mohammad Ahmad In our land the people have the right to differ with the Ahmadis and to consider them wrong. Persecution is, however, not their right In the context of the continued persecution of the Ahmadis in Pakistan this scribe recently […]
ET: DHAKA: A Bangladesh war crimes court Monday ordered a British-based Muslim leader and a US citizen to be tried in absentia for the murder of 19 intellectuals during the 1971 […]
Credit: The Express Tribune By Ferya Ilyas / Reuters Published: June 24, 2013 ISLAMABAD: The federal government has decided to initiate a high treason case against former military dictator Pervez Musharraf for subverting the […]
Source: Asia Times: By Pepe Escobar HONG KONG – So it’s going to be Our Man in Quito. The narrative may not be as elegant as Graham Greene’s, but the plot certainly beats the Bourne trilogy – because it’s happening live, in real time, right in front of our eyes. […]
By Zubair Khan Pictures: Farzan Khan, National Secretary AMJ Germany. It is a great honour for Ahmadiyya Muslim Community Germany to have its supreme head in the country. Khalifa of Islam arrived Germany on 22.06.2013. In a very colourful and emotional ceremony the community members welcomed their beloved Imam. […]
Source: Conservative Papers: On Andrea Tantaros radio show last week, conservative columnist and author Pat Buchanan warned of an unintended consequence of the immigration reform bill, a bill which doesn’t place a high priority on assimilation. According to Tantaros, her previous guest, former New York Lt. Gov. Betsy McCaughey, said that the immigration legislation funnels […]